Johnny Mercer Lyrics Follow
John Herndon Mercer (November 18, 1909 – June 25, 1976) was an American lyricist, songwriter and singer. He was also a record label executive, who co-founded Capitol Records with music industry businessman Buddy DeSylva and Glenn E. Wallichs.
He is best known as a tin pan alley lyricist, but he also composed music. He was also a popular singer who recorded his own songs as well as those written by others. From the mid-1930s through the mid-1950s, many of the songs Mercer wrote and performed were among the most popular hits of the time. He wrote the lyrics to more than fifteen hundred songs, including compositions for movies and Broadway shows. He received nineteen Academy Award nominations, and won four Best Original Song Oscars.
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Albums
Strip Polka / The Air-Minded Executive Single
Popular Songs
- Mississippi Mud
- Who Takes Care of the Carpenter's Daughter
- I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None of My Jellyroll
- If I Had My Druthers
- Ace in the Hole
- My Cutey's Due at Two-To-Two Today
- East of the Rockies
- Medley: Paddlin' Madelin' Home / Row, Row, Row
- Lonesome Polecat
- Indiana
- Two of a Kind
- Bob White
- G.I. Jive
- The Air-Minded Executive
- Trav'lin' Light
- Little Ol' Tune
- The Old Music Master
- Candy
- Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive
- You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby
- They Didn't Believe Me
- I Lost My Sugar in Salt Lake City
- Strip Polka
- On the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
- Wedding Dance
- A Woman Ought To Know Her Place
- Spring, Spring, Spring
- Bless Your Beautiful Hide
- Wonderful Wonderful Day
- Glad That You Were Born
